Cigarette Smoking
Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality death in the United States.” This statement is as
true today as it was then. Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Because smoking
and tobacco use are acquired behaviors activities that people choose to do and smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and diminishes a person’s overall health. Millions of Americans have health problems caused by smoking. Smoking causes stroke and coronary heart disease the leading causes of death in the United States, and even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease. Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower, this makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure go up and Clots can also form.
Smoking is a leading cause of cancer and death, and causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. It causes heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm a balloon-like bulge in an artery in the chest. Smoking also increases heart rate, raises blood pressure, and irritates the heart, which can trigger fatal cardiac arrhythmias. Another harmful effect is a decrease in HDL cholesterol, "the good" type that helps control blood lipid. Smoking actually presents a much greater risk of death from heart disease than from lung disease than from lung disease. Total death rates and death rates from most of the common diseases occurring in both sexes were higher in men than women, it happens in men who never smoked regularly than in women who never smoked regularly, and were higher in men with a history of cigarette smoking than in women with a history of regular cigarette smoking. The chemicals in cigarette smoke are inhaled into the lungs and from there travel throughout the body, causing damage in numerous ways. The smoke damage important genes that control the growth of cells, causing them to grow abnormally or to reproduce too rapidly. Seventy such cancer-causing chemicals have been identified in cigarette smoke to date.The difference between the death rates of subjects with a history of cigarette smoking and subjects who never smoked regularly was much greater among men than women. However, more than 45 million American adults still smoke, more than 8 million are living with a serious illness caused by smoking, and about 438,000 Americans die prematurely each year as a result of tobacco use. Even though you use other kinds of tobacco products such as pipes, cigars, and snuff is less common they still have the same health effects of these products are similar to those of cigarettes particularly their association with cancers of the mouth, throat, and esophagus.
There are seven medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to aid in quitting smoking. Nicotine patches, nicotine gum and nicotine lozenges are available over-the-counter, and a nicotine nasal spray and inhaler are currently available by prescription, and they also have Telephone quit line counseling is widely available and is effective for many different groups of smokers.
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true today as it was then. Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Because smoking
and tobacco use are acquired behaviors activities that people choose to do and smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and diminishes a person’s overall health. Millions of Americans have health problems caused by smoking. Smoking causes stroke and coronary heart disease the leading causes of death in the United States, and even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease. Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower, this makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure go up and Clots can also form.
Smoking is a leading cause of cancer and death, and causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. It causes heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm a balloon-like bulge in an artery in the chest. Smoking also increases heart rate, raises blood pressure, and irritates the heart, which can trigger fatal cardiac arrhythmias. Another harmful effect is a decrease in HDL cholesterol, "the good" type that helps control blood lipid. Smoking actually presents a much greater risk of death from heart disease than from lung disease than from lung disease. Total death rates and death rates from most of the common diseases occurring in both sexes were higher in men than women, it happens in men who never smoked regularly than in women who never smoked regularly, and were higher in men with a history of cigarette smoking than in women with a history of regular cigarette smoking. The chemicals in cigarette smoke are inhaled into the lungs and from there travel throughout the body, causing damage in numerous ways. The smoke damage important genes that control the growth of cells, causing them to grow abnormally or to reproduce too rapidly. Seventy such cancer-causing chemicals have been identified in cigarette smoke to date.The difference between the death rates of subjects with a history of cigarette smoking and subjects who never smoked regularly was much greater among men than women. However, more than 45 million American adults still smoke, more than 8 million are living with a serious illness caused by smoking, and about 438,000 Americans die prematurely each year as a result of tobacco use. Even though you use other kinds of tobacco products such as pipes, cigars, and snuff is less common they still have the same health effects of these products are similar to those of cigarettes particularly their association with cancers of the mouth, throat, and esophagus.
There are seven medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to aid in quitting smoking. Nicotine patches, nicotine gum and nicotine lozenges are available over-the-counter, and a nicotine nasal spray and inhaler are currently available by prescription, and they also have Telephone quit line counseling is widely available and is effective for many different groups of smokers.
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/cigarette_smoking/article_em.htm